At the heart of every successful business, there must be an ideal – a vision that takes the business from merely a functional entity to one that drives the vision forward. Always looking to improve, refusing to rest on past accomplishments and steadfastly aiming for perfection will help spell success.

In Canada and the U.S., many cities are suffering economic hardships and increasing unemployment due to business downsizing and closure, declining populations, and a depleted tax base which could ultimately lead to community deterioration on a social, economic and aesthetic level. Although tourism remains strong in the Rocky Mountains and in major cosmopolitan centres, tourism offers a wealth of opportunities for smaller communities to realize economic development, offsetting job losses in traditional sectors.

Richmond Hill has much to boast about. Its residents are some of the highest educated in all of Canada; it has rich diversity of ethnicity and culture with a vibrant arts community; and it is one of the youngest towns in Canada, with almost sixty-four percent of its population under age forty-five. Richmond Hill has weathered the global financial crisis and its strong economy continues to grow.

One thousand dollars doesn’t go far today. But that’s all it took Nathan Collier in 1972, as an initial investment to grow The Collier Companies. The Collier Companies (TCC) of which Nathan is Founder and President, is the largest privately held student housing provider in the United States. More than 20 percent of off-campus University of Florida students call The Collier Companies properties home.

British Columbia, has, in recent years, built a justifiably impressive reputation as a craft beer and microbrewery enthusiast. The number of microbreweries producing specialist products in the province is enormous and still growing.

Separating impurities and hydrocarbons from natural gas is a complex process, one involving a breadth of quality equipment to facilitate the process. For over two decades, Allied Equipment has been a leader in this field.

In 2009, as advances in multi-stage fracturing technology and horizontal drilling increased the ability of energy companies to recover oil, drilling in the Cardium Formation of the Pembina oil field increased. Although oil has been recovered from the area for decades, the renewed interest made the field once again the epicentre of the oil industry in the province…

Transporting fluids such as oil and water via pipeline is well known to many people, but the use of slurry pipelines to transport mineral concentrate is a niche in which many companies do not perform. Throughout the world, slurry transporting is BRASS Engineering’s specialty.

Used as a stable platform when goods are transported or moved around by forklift or pallet jack, pallets are vital pieces of transport and storage systems. Although they can be made from metal or plastic, the majority of pallets manufactured today are still constructed out of wood.

When Hurricane Maria hit the island country of Dominica and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico in September of 2017, it soon became apparent this was no ordinary storm. Maria was a Category 4 hurricane, with wind speeds reaching an unimaginable 155 miles per hour – nearly those of a Category 5…